Engraving is a historic method of producing images on paper, both in artistic printmaking, and also for commercial reproductions and illustrations. Engraving may be broadly defined as the art of drawing on any substance by means of an incised line. Plates used in engraving are usually made of well polished copper, but silver, steel, brass and pewter plates have also been used. Steel was often used in the second quarter of the last century but the more recently applied method of steel-facing by electrolysis of the copper. Any imperfections are then corrected by hand with a scraper or burnisher.

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